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Riverside, California , was founded in , and named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It became the county seat when Riverside County, California , was established in Prior to the colonization of Mexico and Alta California by Spain, the land that would become Riverside, California, was frequented by various Native American people.

No permanent settlements are known to have existed, but occasional villages close to the river were documented by later explorers.

Eliza Tibbets was an activist, farmer, and spiritualist who was one of the first settlers of European descent in Riverside, California and the first person to successfully cultivate hybrid seedless .

Artifacts found at White Sulphur Springs, as well as grain grinding holes in rocks south of Mount Rubidoux , provide evidence of the Native American activity. On March 20, , Juan Bautista De Anza , leading an exploratory expedition to find a good land route from southern Mexico to Alta California , reached the area today known as Riverside. He, and others in his contingent, described the area as a beautiful place fragrant with rosemary and other herbs , and having rich grasslands for their horses and cattle to graze.

He named the area Valle de Paraiso , or Valley of Paradise. This was the first official record made of what was to become the city of Riverside. De Anza led a second expedition through the area on December 31, This expedition was a colonizing expedition headed for Monterey.

Eliza Tibbets (born Eliza Maria Lovell; –) was among early American settlers and founders of Riverside, California; she was an activist in Washington, D.C., for progressive Missing: information.

To commemorate De Anza's expeditions, the city of Riverside, through private donations and a federal grant from the Works Progress Administration , began work on a foot statue of De Anza in The California Silk Center Association was established in November, , and included some of the land that would later become Riverside. The Association dissolved in April, , when Louis Prevost, the only member of the Association knowledgeable on silk farming, died unexpectedly.

On September 12, , the Southern California Colony Association of Jurupa was formed, and on September 14 they purchased much of the Silk Association's land and water rights. Initially the new colony was referred to as Jurupa, for the name of the original Rancho that occupied the area, but the Colony Association formally adopted the name Riverside on December 18, In Eliza Tibbets convinced William Saunders , [ Note 1 ] Superintendent of the fledgling Bureau of Agriculture , to make her a test grower for his new seedless oranges from Bahia , Brazil.